Season Overview

2011–2012 Season - "The World of Music"

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The Civic Orchestra of Tucson is pleased to announce its 36th concert season, "The World of Music." The programs that Music Director Dr. Herschel Kreloff has created take us on a musical journey spanning many countries and multiple continents. This eclectic offering mixes romantic, contemporary, and nationalistic music, plus the indispensable music of Beethoven. Our music will engage and transport you as it broadens your musical horizons.

We invite you to travel with us musically this year. But you won't have to travel far to hear our music. We will be performing free concerts in many locations, so there is sure to be one near you! This season we will perform concerts in Tucson, Vail, Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita, and Green Valley.

Our November classical concerts take you to Brazil, France, Germany, and Scotland (by way of its German composer). These concerts will include the complete Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish") by Felix Mendelssohn, which he dedicated to Queen Victoria. COT musician Barbara Freischlad will be the soloist in a concerto for timpani and strings composed by Brazilian Ney Rosauro while teaching in Miami. Shantell Petty, winner of the Senior Piano Division of our 2011 Young Artists' Competition, will perform the first movement of Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns at our Sahuarita concert. Rounding out the program is a Wagner opera overture.

December brings us to Russia, when we once again provide live music for The Nutcracker Ballet, performed by Dancing in the Streets AZ. We will also perform excerpts from The Nutcracker at a December Holiday Pops concert with Marana string students.

Our free March classical concerts highlight music of Spain, featuring Spanish composers Manuel de Falla and Enrique Granados. Our performance of "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" by Manuel de Falla will spotlight our own COT pianist, Jose Solórzano. Also on the concert program is Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major.

Rounding out our season, the orchestra will play a Pops concert at Quail Creek in Green Valley in April and our annual free Pops in the Park concert at Reid Park in Tucson in May.

Remember that nearly all the concerts we present are free to the public. The Nutcracker Ballet and Quail Creek Pops concert are ticketed events, as they are sponsored by those organizations. We appreciate your support and hope that with your help we can continue to present free concerts for another 36 years! We look forward to seeing you at our concerts this season.

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